The Emotions in History, Memory and Storytelling Postgraduate Conference Wednesday 29th June, Checkland Building Falmer Campus, University of Brighton Co-organised by the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton and the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, University of Sussex http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/ http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/mnh Draft Conference Programme (please note that this is a draft programme and may remain subject to revision) 9.30 - 9.45 | Registration | Central Atrium 9.30 – 2 | Room: D222 | Sarah Haybittle: ‘Seeking the Shadow of a Dream Grown Vain: Love and Loss in the First World War’ a display of current research as part of a practice-based PhD (please note this display will only be accessible in the breaks between the panel sessions being held in D222) 9.45 – 10 | Introduction | Room: D222 10 – 11.30 | Parallel Session One: 1. The Emotions in Space and Place | Room: D222 | Chair: Claire Langhamer • Emilia Salvanou, University of Athens When Writing History is Used for Working Through Trauma: A Case Study on Interwar Refugees of Thrace and the Development of their National Narrative • Popovic Maja, Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam The Old Belgrade Fairground: Architecture and Storytelling • Elena Trivelli, Goldsmiths College Space, Affect and Silence in Narratives of Deinstitutionalization 2. Writing the Self in Journals, Film and Literature | Room: D419 | Chair: Dorothy Sheridan • Anna Martin, Lancaster University (Un)Writing the Self: Remembering and Forgetting in Traditions of Shared Journaling • Guy Konigsten, Independent Scholar The Story Behind ‘Family Stories’ • Lilian Cameron, University of Melbourne Distance and Intimacy, Empathy and Ellipsis: Approaches to Historical Loss and Silence in Contemporary Literature 3. Oral History, Storytelling and the Emotions | Room: D511 | Chair: Lucy Noakes • Goze Orhon, University of Essex The Voice of Some, The Silence of Some Others: Right Wing Memory of the 12th September Coup in Turkey • Defne Cizakca, University of Glasgow Coffeehouses, Travelling and the Emotions in the Ottoman Storytelling Tradition • Lauren Auger, University of Brighton ‘The Best Soldiers of All!’: Canadian Memory Frameworks of the Second World War and the Figuring of British War Brides and British War Bride Veterans in Canadian Memory Narratives 11.30 – 12 | Tea/Coffee Break | Central Atrium 12 – 1.30 | Parallel Session Two: 1. Film and Emotion | Room: D222 | Chair: Claire Langhamer • Kathryn Morey, Lancaster University Love Conquers All • Jennie Carlsten, Queen's University, Belfast Fracture and Emotion: The Achronological Narratives of Recent Irish Cinema • Kanako Terasawa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Cinema, Memory and Emotion: Hollywood Cultural Texts and Japanese Women’s Story-telling of Feeling, Romance and Love 2. Materiality: The Emotions in Space and Place | Room: D419 Chair: Mark Bhatti • Hollis Griffin, Colby College Screens, Spaces and Affects: Manufacturing Difference in Queer Public Space • Laura Guy, Durham University States of Belonging and Being-in-Common: The Collective Subject in Photographs of Honorific Ceremony, 1901-1911 • Kate Mullins, University of Toronto Experiencing the Body: History, Memory and Materiality in Dionne Brand’s Sans Souci and Other Stories 3. Researching the Emotions in Literature | Room: D510 | Chair: Graham Dawson • Vasiliki Petsa, University of Peloponnese Political Violence and Trauma in Contemporary Greek Novels • Wojciech Drag, Wroclaw University Memory as Wound: Representation of Trauma in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro • Emer Delaney, University of Dublin, Trinity Colleague ‘Each Memory Vapour That is Not of Love’: Sibilla Aleramo and the Poetics of Sentiment 4. Life Histories, Ethnography and the Emotions | Room: D511 | Chair: Cathy Bergin • Francine Bradshaw, University of Bristol Researching my Grandmother in Sierra Leone • Jim Stanford, Independent Scholar Perpetual Spirals of Power and Pleasure • Alec Grant and Lydia Turner, University of Brighton Writing the Reflexive Self: An Autoethnography of Alcoholism and the Impact of Psychotherapy Culture 1.30 – 2.30 | Lunch | Central Atrium 2.30 – 4.30 | Parallel Session Three: 1. Communal Histories and the Emotions | Room: D222 |Chair: Graham Dawson • Tarika, The English and Foreign Languages University I Must Tell My Story: Communal History and Identity in Women’s Ritual Songs in North India • Malgosia Wloszycka, University of Southampton Individual Memories and the Reconstruction of the Jewish-Polish Community. A Case Study of a Town in Southern Poland • Fiona Cosson, University of Northampton Sensing Community: The History of a Feeling • Joanna Tapp, Elmbridge Museum, & Alistair Grant, University of Sussex/ V&A Museum The Passionate People of Elmbridge, Past and Present 2. Methodologies, Representations and the Emotions | Room: D419| Chair: Lucy Robinson • Madalena d’Oliveira-Martins, Universidad de Navarra The New Feminine Emotional Codes in Hochschild: New Perspectives for Modern Social Studies • Hamid Foroughi, Henley Business School, University of Reading Exploring Forgetting and Remembering in Organizations: A case of Organizational Trauma • Michael Paraskos, Cyprus College of Art Art and Emotional Containment 3. Life Histories and Material Cultures | Room: D510 | Chair: Lucy Noakes • Charlotte Greenhalgh, University of Oxford Ageing as an Emotional Process in Mid Twentieth Century Britain • Abigail Wincott, University Centre Hastings Growing My Heritage • Bridget Millmore, University of Brighton ‘An Heart That can Feel for Another’: The Expression of Affection on Tokens of the Poor (1700- 1856) 4 Reading the Emotions through ‘Cultural Texts’ | Room: D511 | Chair: Cathy Bergin • Maggi Smith-Dalton, Lesley University Music as Ritual Redemption at the Boston Peace Jubilees • Elizaveta Yuzhakova, European University of St. Petersburg Michael Ann Holly: Art Historian’s Melancholy or Historian’s Nostalgia? • Erin Poole Walters, University of Cambridge ‘How these Visions Would Affect Thee’: Emotions and Conceptions of the Afterlife in England, 1560-1640 • June Rowe, Independent Scholar Disturbances in the Moon: Narrative and Language in British Folklore 4.30 – 5 | Tea/Coffee Break | Central Atrium 5 – 5.30 | Keynote: Dr Claire Langhamer, University of Sussex: The Emotional History of Postwar Britain. Chair: Lucy Noakes | Room: D222 .